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Lata Mangeshkar who passed away last week.
This song from the film Madhumathi was a great hit when those in our batch were at the height of our romantic lives.
I think fellow Hindi fans will enjoy the song with the subtitles.
CJ
Lata Mangeshkar
News, Views and More from Batch'64, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo, SriLanka 
Lata Mangeskar – The Song Bird of India .
Thank you CJ and Sam for this most loveliest of all songs that this great Indian Songbird sang for all of us, in her most hauntingly lovely voice , as we were growing up , during ‘the height of our romantic lives’ as you say !!
No- I did not have an ‘ Paradesi Romance ‘ back then, or now !!!
Ajarey ….. Paradesi — My love in a foreign land — I believe is the meaning of the first line of the song .
Lata Mangeskar, Rukmani Devi , Lata Walpola — they were my Role Models ,. The Voice of My Youth .
” Soul Food ” now, more than half a century later, half a world away, in the dead of winter on a sunny cold day at minus 15 deg C, looking out into the white frozen Lake Huron !
I was NEVER allowed to see any Sinhala- Tamil- Hindi movie by my parents – -thats the way it was back then — a totally culturally deprived environment – but, the rebel that I was , I still managed to learn the songs and sing them , and go to the movies when I would spend school holidays with my grandmother in Matara at the S. K Cinema Hall , that Sam may recall !
Me and my grandmother, we would go to the movies in the Bakki Karattya with shiny leather covered seats , chugging along Elliot Road , Matara, that pot holed road and Wow– what a memory … !
Later in Canada, I was able to see most of these Hindi Movies at various Hindi Movie Festivals, and saw “Madumati , ” three times, when the ‘festival came to the locality that I lived back in the later 70’s
Strangely enough, when I heard about the passing of Lata Mangeskar, this was the first song that came to my mind — …. ” Ajarey …. Paradesi ”
I had the good fortune to see her perform in Montreal ( Quebec- Canada ) back in the late 70s I believe it was .
What a performance it was- a performance that I will never forget ..
— Pity that I did not even own a camera back then .
But, the memory of that concert – is still in my memory neuronal chips !.
Thank you again CJ and Sam .
eagleD
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What a singer – will be sadly missed by all her fans. I still have few records.
This song used to be sung well by CJ & Nagawatte in Bloemfontein Bath room/ shower !!! & also after few spiritual sessons !!
Still echoing in my ears.
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